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Insight into Our Children

Understanding the needs of our children is important. Below is the list of questions asked and selected responses.  

About Alton Student Survey

Survey Aim

Focus Group Participants

Who Participated

To identify strengths and weaknesses in Alton based on youth’s lived experience in the areas of mental health, physical health, and community

resources.

Who Participated

Focus Group Participants

Who Participated

The survey was given in May 2023, to all 6 th -12 th graders in Alton. It had

about 400 questions and questions were taken from other validated surveys for children.

Focus Group Participants

Focus Group Participants

Focus Group Participants

Thirteen Alton high schoolers participated in a ranking activity to share the most important things about their health and community.

Survey Questions

Focus Group Participants

Focus Group Participants

Please click on the link below to see the exact questions your child was asked on the survey.


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"I've had access to doctors, but nothing to help with mental health." 9th grader in Alton

"I've had access to doctors, but nothing to help with mental health." 9th grader in Alton

"I've had access to doctors, but nothing to help with mental health." 9th grader in Alton

"I've had access to doctors, but nothing to help with mental health." 9th grader in Alton

"I've had access to doctors, but nothing to help with mental health." 9th grader in Alton

"I've had access to doctors, but nothing to help with mental health." 9th grader in Alton

Snapshot of Survey Results

5% of Alton youth reported having carried a weapon onto school property. 4.6% of youth carried a gun in the past year. 


89% of students had never smoked. 80% had never drank alcohol. 85% of youth had never tried marijuana. 


72% of youth reported never having sexual intercourse. Of those who did, 55% report using a condom at their last sexual encounter. 


62% of youth plan to go to college after graduation. 


63% of students report never skipping school. 30% report sometimes skipping school. 6% report often skipping school.

Focus Group Responses

The following focus group answers are in numbered order:

What is most important to you?

  1. Mental Health
  2. School
  3. Family
  4. Faith/Church
  5. Friends/Peers
  6. Physical Health
  7. After-School Activities
  8. Community

Which of these things do you think impacts your classmates the most?

  1. Feeling unloved.
  2. Abuse.
  3. Caregiver in jail, prison, or detained.
  4. Caregiver with mental illness.
  5. Adults fighting.
  6. Caregiver being mean.

What is the most important thing to you about your health?

  1. I live in a safe place.
  2. I am safe.
  3. I can sleep well.
  4. I can go to a doctor.
  5. I eat healthy food.
  6. I run and play.

What impacts your neighborhood the most?

  1. How safe it is.
  2. Violence.
  3. Activities offered there.
  4. How clean it is.
  5. Drugs being used or sold.
  6. How dirty it is.

Free Responses: What Mental Health Means to Me...

Mental health to me means being able to be in touch with your emotions. Being able to understand your feelings and know how to control them. Mental health can be different and look different for everyone.

Mental health is the well-being of your own thought, feelings, and emotions. Good mental health is being able to operate well without mental factors standing in your way. To me, I feel my mental health is best when I'm stressed free and not worried about things.

Mental health to me means to like your inner self, your thoughts. I feel like you should always want to take care of your mental health. You should want to take care of that before anything else!

Mental health to me means being able to go about my days being genuinely happy and not even giving up on your bad days. Mental health is also being able to handle situations very calmly without overwhelming yourself.

Mental health is very important to me because it's your whole thought process: what you think about yourself and other, how positive or negative you are.

Mental health means how well you're able to handle emotional situations and regulate yourself without shutting or breaking down. Also having real coping skills and not just pretending like nothing is wrong.

Mental Health Resources

Alton Therapists

Mental Health APPs

Mental Health APPs

High schoolers identified as most helpful resource.


Southern Illinois Health Foundation 

4 Memorial Drive, Building B, Suite 210  

(618) 463-5905


Centerstone

2615 Edwards St, 

Alton, IL 62002 

(618) 462-2331


Additional Resources

Mental Health APPs

Mental Health APPs

Mental Health APPs

Identified as most helpful resource.


“Finch” 

Free Self-Care & Habit Tracker


“I am – Daily Affirmations”

Positive reminders and motivation


“Clarity” 

A Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy Self-Help Journal

Suicide Prevention

Mental Health APPs

Suicide Prevention

Gender queer identified as most helpful resource.


988 

Can text or call, use when you aren’t sure how to help a friend or yourself in crisis or in their mental health.


Seizetheawkward.org

Use for help talking to friends about their mental health and how to support yourself and others.


24/7 Suicide Hotline for Lesbian, Gay, and Bisexual Youth

Call 1-866-488-7386 or text START to 678-678


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